{{Short description|Family of marine parasites}} {{Automatic taxobox | display_parents = 3 | grandparent_authority = Canning, Curry, Feist, Longshaw & Okamura, 2000 | parent_authority = Canning, Curry, Feist, Longshaw & Okamura, 2000 | taxon = Saccosporidae | authority = Canning, Okamura & Curry, 1996 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text }}
'''Saccosporidae''' is a family of myxozoans.<ref name="worms">{{Cite WoRMS|id=851298|title=Subclass Malacosporea}}{{Retrieved|access-date=2013-02-17}}.</ref><ref name="ITIS">{{ITIS|id=914183|taxon=Malacosporea}}{{Retrieved|access-date=2013-02-17}}.</ref> It is the only family within the class '''Malacosporea''' and has only three species, whereas the other class of Myxozoa, Myxosporea, includes more than a thousand.
==Taxonomy and systematics== *Genus ''Buddenbrockia'' <small>Schröder, 1910</small> **''Buddenbrockia allmani'' <small>Canning, Curry, Hill & Okamura, 2007</small> **''Buddenbrockia plumatellae'' <small>Schröder, 1910</small> *Genus ''Tetracapsuloides'' <small>Canning, Tops, Curry, Wood & Okamura, 2002</small> **''Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae'' <small>(Canning, Curry, Feist, Longshaw & Okamura, 1999)</small>
== Description == Saccosporidae are parasites of fish and freshwater bryozoans. ''Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae'', the only representative of the group whose life cycle is well studied, causes proliferative disease of the kidneys in salmonids. Two stages of the life cycles of the two species in the genus ''Buddenbrockia'' are known. One of them is a saccular stage, similar to ''Tetracapsuloides''. During the second stage the animals are mobile and superficially resemble minute worms. ''Buddenbrockia allmani'' parasitizes ''Lophopus crystallinus'', while ''Buddenbrockia plumatellae'' parasitizes, in particular, ''Plumatella fungosa''.
== References == {{Reflist}} * {{Cite journal |vauthors=Tops S, Baxa DV, McDowell TS, Hedrick RP, Okamura B |year= 2004|title= Evaluation of malacosporean life cycles through transmission studies|journal= Dis Aquat Organ|volume= 60|issue= 2|pages= 109–121|doi= 10.3354/dao060109|pmid= 15460855}}
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Category:Malacosporea Category:Cnidaria families
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